EduardoS (no.delete@this.spam.com) on February 5, 2013 4:41 am wrote:
> Richard Cownie (tich.delete@this.pobox.com) on February 5, 2013 4:33 am wrote:
> > (we implemented a distributed-compile strategy on a farm of x86_64/linux nodes
> > later on, around 2005, but even that wouldn't have helped if you only had a
> > single Itanium machine).
>
> You can geenerate IA64 binaries in x86-64 machines...
>

But can you run unit tests on them? I don't think the majority of recompile time for most projects goes to just building a binary...